Duplicate baggage-check.



0. A. ROEDELL & A. w. SCHAUER.

DUPLICATE BAGGAGE CHECK. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1915.

1,11,482. Patented May 2,1916.

FORMAnD no or TICKET LIFT D From NO OF TICKEYS Ardmwr coLyecTEo Collecfion 4hr OSCAR A. ROEDELL AND AIRCHIBALID W. SCHAUER, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

DUPLICATE BAGGAGE-GHECK.

Patented May 2, 1916.

Application filed September 20, 1915. Serial No. 51,512.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OSCAR A. Honour. and ARCHIBALD W. SCHAUER, citizens of the United States, residingv at Minneapolis,

in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota,have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Duplicate Baggage- Checks, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to duplicate baggage checks, and has for its object to provide a baggage check particularly of the type employed in the collection, of excess baggage wherein there is a considerable amount of data to beentered upon the check which is attached to the piece of baggage, and which data shouldbe recorded upon a slip or book to go to the auditing depart- -ment of the road.

It is the purpose of our invention to provide means whereby such an auditing slip bearing the check number and filed therewith may be filled in simultaneously with the filling-in of the check proper so that such data will need to be written but once; and because the auditing slip bears the duplicate check number there can be no mistake in the record made from the auditing slip.

30 he full objects and advantages of our invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof and are par 1 ticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, illustrating the application of our invention in one form, Figure l is a front view of a baggage check embodying our invention .with the auditors slip partially removed. Fig. 2 ,is a section through the same. 'Fig. 3"is an enlarged section showing the construction of the recording auditors slip.

As illustrated the check blank is provided with an attaching string 11 in the usual way, and has a removable portion 12 which is to be a passengers identification check. On an intermediate portion 13 of the check blank appears the form which is to be filled in with the necessary data for describing and checking a package, and the auditors slip 14 is a duplicate form which is attached to the check blank 10 so as exactly to overlie the form 13. The detachable identification check 12, the form 13 and the auditors slip 1 1 are all provided with the same number, as indicated at 15, said number appearing at the bottom of each portion in large type.

The auditors slip 14 will preferably be formed of what is'knownas carbon paper on which a layer of carbon 16, as indicated in F1g.'3, is applied to the portion of the slip which comes next to the form 13. Itis obvious that separate carbon paper might be employed if desirable, although for the purpose of this invention the use of record 1ng carbon paper in which the carbon is upon the rear face of the auditors slip gives the most effective results.

The slip 14 may be attached to the body 10 by eyelets 17 or in any other suitable manner such that it may readily be removed. and it will normally lie above the form 13 with the identification numbers 15 above .one' another on both the form and the slip.

When such a check is filled in the data is written upon the slip, which thus, of course, is the original record of the transaction.

copy of this writing is reproduced, however, upon the form 13 by reason 01 the carbon paper or carbon backing of slip 14.

The major part of the record is written out on the auditors slip, there being little writ ing required on the passengers identification duplicate check, so that if any error is made other than that of destination in filling in the duplicate check no damage will result. The auditors slip is then torn off,

the identification check detached and given to the passenger, and the check form with the carbon copy of the auditors slip there on is attached to the piece of baggage. The auditors slip is filed and forwarded to the auditors department where the proper comparisons and recording are effected.

\Ve claim:

A baggage check comprising a relatively stiff main portion constituting a destination check and attached passenger identification check at one end thereof with a weakened line between the main portion and such check for detachment of the chcck,and a relatively flexible portion constituting an auditors check superimposed upon one only of said checks, the auditors check and one of said other checks being previded with Q In testimony whereefme fifi i x 0m sfignwcorresponding matter or data, and. each of tures in presence of two witnesses. the three checks provided with the safie OSCAR AROEDELL,

' identifying numerals or characters, and a ARCHIBALD W. SCI-IAUER.

reproducing surface lying only between one Witnesses. of thechecks and auditors check, substan- F. A. WHITELEY, tially as described. H. A. Bowm N. 

